Overload

No matter what you are cooking, do not burn the kitchen.

Company

The people who notice your absence are those whose presence you want in your life. 

My last first

My first day of school

A backpack full of jitters;

My mother’s eyes 

Say more

With that one last wave

At the door. 

To live

Is to tick boxes off the list.

The more, the merrier —

Then, the more sparse

Only a new beginning

Can bring. 

Do we grow bolder

Writing more chapters —

Now we take time

To reconsider. 

When was the last time

I trembled,

Showered in waterfalls

Of the unknown

The pinnacle —

I would rather miss what was

Than what could have been. 

Humility

Heroes do not think of themselves as heroes.

One does not exist without the other

Only in sickness do we appreciate health.